Mold of typographical line-casting machines.



'H. WHITTAKER & c. HOLLIWELL. MOLD OF TYPOGRAPHICAL LINE CASTING MACHINES.

' APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9 1914.

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.M. H. WHITTAKER & 0. HOLLIWELL.

MOLD 0F TYPOGRAPHICAL LINE CASTING MACHINES. APPLiCATION FILED MAR. 9, 1914.

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BROADHEATH, ENGLAND, ASSIGNORS TO LINOTYPE AND MACHINERY LIYII'LjiiL OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

lVIOLD OF TYIE'QGRALPI-IICAL LINE-CASTING MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Original application filed September 27, 1913, Serial. Ito. 782,678. Divided and this application filed March 9, 1914. Serial No. 823,324.

To all whom it may concern lie it known that We, LLXTTHEWIHENRY Wnrrrannn and CHARLES HOLLIWELL, subjects of the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and residing, re-

spectively, at Norton House, Hornby Road,

Uld lraiiord, Manchester, in the county of l iancaster, England, and Linotype andMachinery urks, Broadheath, in the county oi 'Chester, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Molds of Typographical Line-Casting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to molds for typographical line-casting machines, for the production of devices known, and hereinafter referred to, as slugs which bear on one edge a line of printing characters and ithas ior its object to provide molds for the casting of a certain construction of slug which is especially intended for a particularclass of work as hereinafter more specifically set forth.

The special construction of slug produced in the molds according to the present invention, constitutes the'subject matter of aseparate application for Letters Patent Serial llO.-'l92,078 filed September 27th 191.3, from which application the present one has been divided.

The particular class of work above re ferred to, is the printing of Christmas andl lew Years cards and other devices or articles having printed thereon, greetings or announcements, hereinafter termed texts, and also the senders name and, if desirable, the address also. Frequently these devices are printed in small batches of say, a few dozen each and it often happens that orders are received :t'rom 'dili'erent persons requiring the same text but with 'difierent sendersnames. For this reason the characters for printing the text are generally stereotyped or otherwise co, structed soas to render them suitable for being permanently locked up in the chase, \vl'iile the type for printing the senders name and address, setup in the chase either in separable type or in cast slugs, are periodically changed to give effect to the changes in such names and addresses. Di'lliculty has heretm fore been experienced in usingslugs for printing the senders name because that and other slugs bearing the a larger! scale taken from name has sometimes necessitated a slug or greater measure than could be accommo- 55 dated between the side sticks or furniture of the chase, and the said DZLDIQ'SOlllClLlIl'lBS occupies a length of the slug appreciably short or" its full measure which latter was sufficient to extend from one to the other side so of the chase, the'dilliculty in connection with the last-named device arising out of the fact, that, unless the name were exact 1y central on the slug, it could not be centralized relatively to the text. 65

According to the present invention, the molds are so constructed as to enable the aforesaid slugs to be form-ed so that the edges thereof which bear the printing characters, can extend over the side sticks'or 7% furniture of the chase and so that the said slugs can be adjusted longitudinally within the chase.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in 75 which Figure l is an isonietrical view of a sing, the printing matter on which. of shorter measure than the distance liietveen the two sides of the chase; Fig. 2 is an isoinetrical 80' perspective view of a mold which according to the present invention is czpablc oi r0- ducing slugs such as shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an isomctrical perspective view of chase with a slug such as that illustrated in 1 locked up along with a stereotype plate ddress of the senders; Fig. 4T is a representa thecliasc illustrated in l i g. i3; and u an isomctrical perspective vicvv oi; a sh which the measure of the printing such as might to secure ceutr thereof, render it desirable to be i nally adjusted in either direction. The essence of tliepi'esci'it invention may he said to reside in a mole such construe tion as to provide for the formation oi: the

name slugs l with their u. edges overhanging the slugs either at one end, as Q, or at both ends, as shown in l render them capable of errti" adjacent furnitine 3, as short even over the side if;

' face are of the usual type height excepting chase 5 by the usual furniture 3, side sticks at the overhanging ends which are of such height as to admit of them extending over (conveniently without contacting with) the aforesaid furniture or side sticks.

As indicated in Fig. 3, a slug suchas that indicated in Fig. 1, can be locked up in the 4 and 'quoinsG along with a stereotype plate 7 and other slugs 8, 8, bearing the senders address, the said furniture being of the usual height so that the overhanging end or ends-of the slug l'can extend over it.

In the example illustrated in Figs. 1, 3 and 4, in which the senders names are of very short measure, these names are, in the ord1- nary way, cast on, or toward, one end of the slug, viz :that end where no overhang is present, and when this slug is set up in the chase 5, it can readily be adjusted to centralize the printing matter thereon rela- 5, with an overhang. at each of its ends, so

that it could be adjusted in either direction with one or both of those overhangs extending over one or both of the respectively adjacent furnitures in the chase 5.

For casting a slug such asthat represented in- Fig. 1, themold would .be constructed preferably as shown in Fig- 2; this 'mold is,

1 in general, of the construction ordinarily employed in the casting machine known commercially under the trade mark Linotype, the only difference being that which exists in'one of the end liners. This mold comprises the ordinary body 9, the ordinary cap 10 and two end liners 11, 12 all rigidly secured together, the liner ll'being recessed as at 13 for the casting therein of the overhang 1 1, Fig. 1-, while the other liner 12 is of the ordinaryconstruction.

For the casting of slugs such as that shown in Fig. 5, both of whose ends overhang, the liner 12 as well as the liner 11 would be recessed in .the same manner as that shown in connectionwith the liner .11

in Fig. 2.

We have shown our invention only in preferred form and by way of exam 1e, and

many changes and variations all 0 which fall within the scope'of the invention, will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art; r\

Having now particularly described our invention, we declare that what we'- claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A slotted mold comprising side and end walls, one of the end walls being formedv in its front face with an elongated recess-extending longitudinally-of the mold and communica'ting with the mold slot,the length of said mold slot being less than the measure of the slug produced by the-mold.

2. A slotted mold comprising a body-portion, a cap portion and an intermediate liner constituting one of the-end walls of the mold slot,the said intermediate liner being formed, in its front face with anelongated recess extending longitudinally of the .mold and communicating with'the mold slot.

3. A mold liner formed in its front face,

with an elongated longitudinally extending 'recess for the purpose described. i I In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two witnesses. MATTHEW HENRY WHITTAKER.

CHARLES HOLLIWELLV Witnesses: I

ERNALD SIMPSON MOSELEY, MALooLM Smarrmnsn, 

